"But obviously it's not the sort of mattering that means that you don't want to - I know I can't, I know it's not reasonable to expect you not to sleep with anyone else when I might never be able to, I know it was stupid to think you wouldn't go to other people, but I was stupid, okay, I thought I was enough, I thought you were happy with me anyway, I thought - "

" - this is about me having sex with people?"

Nodnodnodnod.

"...among humans, is it normal to - like the people you're having sex with more than other people in your life, or something?"

Nodnodnod! 

"I mean - not always, but - if you're already in love with someone, then - people don't just - "

"- there's some amount of liking someone where you don't want to have sex with other people?"

Nodnodnod.

"Okay. That is not really how fairies do things. I know fairies who were - by all appearances deeply, deeply in love, had many children together, risked their lives for each other a hundred times over, so deeply entangled you might as well think of them as one person - 

- and they'd still have sex with other people, same as they'd still talk to other people, same as they'd still listen to stories told by other people..."

"Okay. Well - for humans sex is different than those things."

"Oh. Okay. - I didn't know that."

"Okay. 

"Well now I don't know how you feel about me again."

"We are staying in this stupid horrible place where everyone hates me because there is a small chance they can make you immortal and I can have you forever."

Hug. Very clingy hug.

"'m so sorry. I just - it seemed really clear, when I heard, I didn't know fairies were different that way, and I've never met anyone who really loved somebody who was enslaved to them, and - I got scared, and I love you, and I want you to stay, and it hurt, thinking you didn't - "

"I was upset earlier because - because it didn't seem fair that you'd just leave - I wouldn't - if we wandered into some place with lots of other nice friendly humans I wouldn't just go 'well this is an even better deal than what I had going'"

Nodnodnod. "Don't wanna leave. Just - was thinking I didn't matter to you and was just a slave who'd gotten confused, and then everyone kept saying it at me, like it was obvious, and - I opened the door and waited for you as soon as I knew how, still, I was just - confused for a bit, and I'm sorry - "

Hug. "You didn't do anything wrong."

Hug. "You either."

"Haven't had a slave before. I didn't really think about how you're supposed to - feel, or what you're supposed to do..."

"Where I'm from people are not - nice, to their slaves, slaves don't really matter, at least not - whether they're happy, or get to have things they want, or lives that have good things in them, and I just - I thought maybe fairies were different and maybe I wasn't really the same thing anymore, that maybe I did matter after all, and - I don't know what we are, but whatever we are I want to be - important to you - "

"You are really important to me. I - dunno if that's because fairies are different or because you are."

Nodnod. Hug.

"Don't wanna leave. Don't - know exactly all of what I want, here, but I don't wanna leave."

"Good."

Snuggle. She can't kiss him because this stupid horrible bed is here, but at least she can snuggle him.

Maybe if they just hold each other and eventually fall asleep everything will be less confusing in the morning.

This seems like a good plan.